On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles?

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 8 March 2022

• Document Type: Journal Article
• Theme: Economic Growth and Social Change
• First published: 31 July 2021
• Authors: Field, E, Pande, R, Rigol, N, Schaner, S and Troyer Moore, C

Abstract

Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public sector wages into their own (versus husbands바카라 사이트�) accounts. Relative to the accounts only group, women who also received direct deposit and training worked more in public and private sector jobs. The private sector result suggests gender norms initially constrained female employment. Three years later, direct deposit and training broadly liberalized women바카라 사이트檚 own work-related norms, and shifted perceptions of community norms.

This research is part of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme

Citation

Field E., Pande R., Rigol N., Schaner S., and Troyer Moore C., (2021). 바카라 사이트淥n Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women바카라 사이트檚 Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms.바카라 사이트� American Economic Review, 111 (7): 2342-75. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20200705

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Published 8 March 2022